Inhaler.



E. M. FLETCHER.

INHALER.

APPL'ICATION FILED AUG.Z2. l9l6. RENEWED MAY 7.2, 9H.

1 7 Patented July 3, 191?.

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EUGENE IVL PLETCHER, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

INHALER.

1 231 757 Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 3, ll ll'iih AppIication filed August 22, 1916, Serial No. 116,320. Renewed May 22, 1917. Serial No. 170,271.

To all whom it may concern: ets 3 are formed by flanges upon the free Be it known that I, EUGENE M. PLETGHER, ends of the yoke and are disposed in the 55 a citizen of the United States, residing at same'plane, having their confronting ends Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia closed as at a while the outer ends are open 5 and State of Pennsylvania, have invented to receive medicated material The manew and useful Improvements in Inhalers, terial 5 is preferably in the form of cotof which the following is a specification. ton, woolen, or felt wads which may be eat 60 This invention relates to inhalers, and has urated with a suitable medicine, such as particular reference to an improved type of menthol, oil of eucalyptus or the like. The inhaler capable of being carried in and supplugs of absorbent material 5 are cylindrical ported by the nostrils. in shape and'of such length as to project The primary object of this invention is beyond the open ends of the pocket, so as 65 to provide a device of the above described to insure vaporization of the medicine with character so constructed as to securely rewhich said plugs are saturated. To further tain the inhaler within the nostrils by means aid the vaporizing of the medicine within of resilient jaws formed therewith, thus the material 5, the pockets are formed with eliminating the necessity of using the hand, longitudinally extending slots (3, which are 70 straps or other devices for this purpose, the arranged at uniformly spaced intervals resilient jaws being engageable with the about the pocket, and open out through an cartilage of the nose in such a manner as to end thereof. The slots (3 further serve to prevent the inhaler from becoming accidengive a certain amount of resilient action to tally disengaged from the nose. that portion of the pockets between the slots, 75

Another object resides in an inhaler which in retaining the material 5 in the pockets. may be conveniently secured within the nos- In operation, the material 5 is first placed trils in a free and natural manner and will in the pockets and then saturated with a be sufiiciently small to. enable the user theresuitable medicine whereupon the free ends of to breathe naturally and without 0bjec of the yoke l are spread against the inherent 0 tionable discomfort, even when resorting to resiliency of the material of which the yoke violent exercise. is formed, whereupon the device is then A further object is to provide an inhaler placed within the nose in such a manner as of the above character with novel means for to cause the confronting ends of the pockets supporting medicated material within the 3 to engage the opposite sides of the car- 85 nostrils, said means being so constructed as tilage of the nose, the medial portion of the to permit the user to receive the full val e yoke being disposed exteriorly of the nose of the medicine contained in the material. to permit the ready removal of the device Other objects of the invention will appear as i clearly sh wn in Fig. 1 of the draw as the specification is read in connection ings. It will thus be seen that the yoke 90 with the accompanying drawing will cause the pockets to snugly engage the Figure 1 is a perspective view of the de cartilage to prevent the accidental displace- Vice, ShOWiIlg e S mein applied position, ment of the device. The inhaler is now in Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the device, showing the medicated material carrying members in section,

Fig. 3 is a perspective view, and

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view.

Referring to the drawings in detail, the

active position, the medicated material being disposed directly within the nostrils to 5 permit the vaporizing of the same, as the person wearing the inhaler breathes. It will. be manifest from the foregoing that I have provided asimple and efficient means for invention comprises a substantially U-shaped retaining the device within the nostrils of yoke 1, formed from any resilient material the nose and to so engage the nose as to such as hard rubber, celluloid or the like, the prevent bulging or distorting of the nostrils.

50 arms of the yoke being inclined inwardly It is thought from the foregoing taken in as at 2, and enlarged at their free ends to connection with the accompanying drawcontact with the septum of the nose a short ings that the construction and operation of distance above the lower end thereof. Pockthis device will be apparent to those skilled 10 nular flanges formed on the outer faces of the enlarged ends, said flanges being slotted longitudinallv.

2. An inhaler comprising a resilient U- shaped yoke having flanges on its free ends forming pockets With each pocket having 15 longitudinally extending slots opening out through an end thereof.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

EUGENE M. FLETCHER.

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Washington, D. G. 

